Map Reduce/ Hadoop Search Specialist – LONDON recruitment

A leading global financial trading provider is looking for a talented technical search specialist with specific niche skills (map reduce, Hadoop, lucene, xapian, sphinx...) to embark on an exciting new flagship enterprise application. The successful candidate will embark on an exciting project building a next generation search platform. A high level of responsibility is required as the role involves the individual to play the part as a technical leader who is able to resolve complex technical challenges by creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry practices

Technical requirements for Map Reduce/ Hadoop Search Specialist- LONDON

Required Skills

• Strong skills and experience with C#, Java, Map/Reduce, Hadoop and SQL relational databases. 

• Experience developing and delivering highly scalable distributed systems with throughput/response time requirements.

• Solid understanding of enterprise architecture, SOA and design patterns.

• Entrepreneurial with an inherent sense of urgency and accountability.

• Must have effective communication and collaboration skills.

• Experience with agile or similar methodologies for continuous development of product and technology.

• Data-driven and "quantitative" mentality. Grounded, detail-oriented, always backs up ideas with facts.

• Experience in search, distributed algorithms, advanced data structures, large volume data processing and statistics- desirable.

• Experience within the financial sector- desirable.

Responsibilities for Map Reduce/ Hadoop Search Specialist- LONDON

• To help build a next generation search platform. 

• To be the technical leader, able to resolve complex technical challenges by creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry practices.

• The ideal candidate will leverage his/her refined skills working with product and business teams, transforming business goals and requirements into reality.

• Leading  all facets of the software development lifecycle; algorithms, implementation, production deployments and operations

Key skills: Map Reduce search specialist, Hadoop search specialist, Search Specialist, Java/Hadoop Developer, Java/ Hadoop search specialist, Java/ Hadoop Software Engineer, Map Reduce Software Engineer.

The ideal candidate will be a talented software engineer with high emotional intelligence who sets high and exacting standards and demands the best work of their team. The candidate must be passionate to take on a challenging exciting opportunity using niche technologies such as Map/Reduce and Hadoop. A graduate background is essential, preferably in maths, physics or computer science

If you would like to apply for the Map Reduce/Hadoop Search Specialist (Map Reduce, Hadoop, Java, C#, SQL, Cassandra, SOA, lucene, xapian, sphinx, west coast technologies) position in London then please send through an up to date CV to java@selbyjennings.com or contact 020 019 4163 for more information.